Patrouille de choc (1957)

Directed by

Claude Bernard-Aubert

Genre

war film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

U

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French patrol is trapped and fighting for survival during the First Indochina War. The film follows soldiers facing harsh conditions and mounting hopelessness in the jungle.

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What happens

Shock Patrol (French: Patrouille de choc, Vietnamese: Hai cô gái Việt) is a 1957 French war film set during the First Indochina War that was written and directed by Claude Ogrel under the name Claude Bernard-Aubert Ogrel was a war correspondent in French Indochina from 1949 to 1954 and this was his film debut. The film was the first French film about the First Indochina War. The original title Patrol Without Hope (Patrouille sans espoir) was changed along with the original pessimistic ending. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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